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Edison reported outages in cities including Monterey Park, Claremont, Glendora, San Dimas, Rosemead and South Pasadena.

Font Size: Nearly 40% of small businesses closed since the first COVID-19 case in the United States, a recent report found. Across the U.S., 39% of all small businesses that were open in January 2020 had closed as of June 2, according to the most recent metrics published from Opportunity Insights. The data shows the professional and business services industry dealt with a 25% decrease in small businesses compared to January 2020. Around 33% of small businesses in the education and health services industry had to shut their doors. The retail and transportation industry lost 34% of small busine...

Stimulus package will keep California limping along. But the economic chasm is deepening [The Sacramento Bee] Dec. 31—Billions of dollars in fresh COVID-19 economic relief are on their way, but the just-enacted stimulus package won’t do any good for the Natomas Sports Club. The Sacramento business shut down permanently in early November, a casualty of months of restrictions imposed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The shutdown eliminated 89 jobs. “It kind of speaks to how dramatic the financial impact has been on certain industries,” said Larry Gi...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA New jobless numbers are out, and here’s what’s ahead for Stanislaus County residents [The Modesto Bee] Dec. 21—Unemployment numbers in Stanislaus County dropped to 8.3% in November, marking another month of decrease since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But due to the nature of month-by-month unemployment data, economist Jeff Michael, the director of the Center for Business and Policy Research at the University of the Pacific, warns that what looks like steady recovery may in reality be masking a “stall.” “Usually unemployment starts to pick back up in the ...

system that chris christie was pushing through the legislature. they were aimed at trimming the state's liability by $120 trillion over the next few years. it was a ban on collective bargaining on health care for four years, increase in employee contribution to health care costs, increase in employment pension payments, end of cost of living increases for retirees. christie called all of these open reforms and he got his way. democrats may control the legislature but there's a group of bosses with whom he's cultivated similar bee yotic relationships. they came through with the key cr...